Günter Spranger

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Günter Spranger (born May 3, 1921 in Chemnitz ; † May 21, 1992 ibid) was a German writer .

Life

Born on May 3, 1921 in Chemnitz as the son of a bricklayer, Günter Spranger first attended elementary school and later high school from 1931 to 1939, and passed his Abitur in 1939. He then did labor service and was a soldier in the Wehrmacht for five years from 1940 . He was wounded several times and was taken prisoner by the Americans in 1945. After returning home, he taught ancient languages ​​(Latin & Greek) at the Friedrich-Engels-Oberschule in Karl-Marx-Stadt from 1946 to 1968.

Between 1959 and 1979 he made several trips abroad to Austria (1959, 1964), the Mediterranean / Black Sea (1960), Sweden (1961), FRG (1961, 1973, 1979), Hungary (1963, 1966), and the Soviet Union (1972, 1976 ), Bulgaria (1977), Romania (1979). Since 1952 he was a member of the German Writers 'Association and since 1968 a freelance artist with residence in Karl-Marx-Stadt and 2nd Chairman of the District Association of the Writers' Association of the GDR.

Awarded several prizes, the book editions of his novels reached a total GDR print run of well over 500,000 copies.

Spranger over himself and his work

" The time after the collapse of fascism was the time of searching for new spiritual values, difficult for a person who had gone through the hell of war, had not studied and was empty-handed before the future. The hunger for books was great . Some things have left deep marks on me. I got to love Maxim Gorky , Leo Tolstoy , Romain Rolland , Thomas Mann , Stefan Zweig , Balzac and the other great French of the last century ... The writer who reflected the past and present in the Having become acquainted with literature becomes humble because he sees what he himself writes in the right proportions. You have to keep advising young writers to read more than they usually do ...
For a young writer, writing means to mature inwardly and He begins to recognize his weaknesses and strengths, decides on a particular literary genre and extends the temporal boundaries around the Plot of his works. With the ideological deepening his view of historical events broadened ...
My thinking continued to revolve around the last war. For me it became a life's task to warn the next generation of a new catastrophe. Of course, there are also neatly written war books across the Elbe, but in them the question of guilt for the great genocide is not a question of class, but rather depends on the character of individual characters and their 'fateful involvement'. No one touches the roots of our national misfortune. In contrast, our war literature has a different weight. It is one of our arguments as to why we are on the road to socialism.
Connection with life means connection with the working class. I had always sought contact with people, and it was the sum of all encounters that made it possible for me to portray people in my books. I was prematurely connected to life, and to a hard life at that. I came from the working class; my father was a bricklayer. As a writer, you shouldn't miss any opportunity to get to know life. These occasions include travel. I have always enjoyed traveling and make my fondest memories of it. "
[Taken from an article entitled" Interview for a State Examination ", which appeared in the 1960 anthology" Dabeisein- Mitgestalten "published by Tribüne-Verlag.]

Awards

Works

Novels

  • Rokitno base (1957)
  • The castle in the Rhön (1959)
  • The trip to Vienna (1966)
  • Meeting point in Bern (1970)
  • On the beautiful blue Danube (1972)
  • The Amber Brooch (1975)
  • Sebaldusstrasse 19. Heiterer Roman , Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1981
  • Lies: the criminal case of Grete Beier (1980)
  • The Red Sparrow by Siebenlehn (1985)
  • Forced (1987)

Radio plays

  • Written out for search: Sabine Gobbin (1974) - series of facts
  • One evening in September
  • The rope that you will hang on
  • In a roundabout way
  • Baranski's murderer
  • In shock
  • Lady Macbeth To victory
  • On the Cliff (1978)
  • Murder Without Atonement (1961)

Short stories

  • The experiment
  • The family photo
  • The message
  • The mysterious letter
  • The tower of love
  • A very common love story
  • The educational tool
  • The children's party
  • The apology
  • Bessie meets Santa Claus
  • Lady MacBeth to victory
  • The air mattress
  • Change of mind
  • Arrived safely
  • Poaching
  • zoology
  • Memory of snowflake
  • Which colour has the sky?
  • Cavaliers
  • The row flayer
  • Amandus and the girl Gerda
  • Table delights
  • The old cat
  • qualification
  • Cheap prepared
  • On the country road
  • The fury
  • We don't want a war!
  • He was my friend
  • New race between rabbits and hedgehogs
  • The last dream
  • The black farmer
  • On the cliff
  • The real guilt
  • Relapsed
  • The yellow chips
  • Baranski's murderer
  • The confession
  • Not a case for the prosecutor?
  • The Morrison case
  • The bridge
  • Race against death
  • The Lion of Balaklea
  • You speak Greek, don't you?
  • The limit goes through our heart
  • The gift
  • My dentist
  • The sad fish
  • The power of success
  • The Greek lesson
  • The warning
  • Edgar and humanity
  • The funeral home
  • How Mr. Ziesewitz accepted me into the house community
  • No indulgence for Anita
  • The secret
  • Confusion with Mr. Wonigkeit
  • The pine grove
  • similarity
  • chocolate cake
  • The garden fence
  • The surefire tip
  • Travel acquaintance
  • Useful teaching

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Spranger: Under duress . 1st edition 1987. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1987, ISBN 3-7352-0098-2 , p. 336 .
personal data
SURNAME Spranger, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1992
Place of death Chemnitz